If Santa Claus Had Brain Fog

Brain fog might interfere with Santa’s innate sense of direction, forcing him to rely on technology.

He might get confused about the order of gift distribution.

With brain fog, you can make a list and check it twice, thrice, or two hundred times and still forget who is naughty and who is nice.

Brain fog can make you lose stuff, and it can also make you THINK you lost stuff.

Possible diagnoses of Santa’s brain fog:

1) Lyme disease?

Actually, I don’t know anything about reindeer, but puffins are hosts for a tick called Ixodes uriae that carries a European strain of Lyme, borrelia garinii. There was a study done in the Faroe Islands near the Arctic Circle. Puffins also live at the North Pole. Hmm.

2) Has Santa had full thyroid testing including Free T3, Reverse T3, and thyroid antibodies? Brain fog is a symptom of thyroid disease. Also, like many thyroid patients, Santa struggles to lose weight.

3) Does Santa have gut dysbiosis?

4) Santa’s job exposes him to lots of pollution and nasty toxic chemicals. Another reason for brain fog.

5) (Insert your diagnosis of Santa.) Well, I just listed several causes of brain fog, but I’m probably leaving some out because I have brain fog myself. Please feel free to add anything I’ve missed that could apply to Santa Claus. No medical qualifications needed to diagnose imaginary beings.

Happy Holidays, and I wish everyone many pain-free or at least low-symptom days.

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Vicki

Hi! I'm Vicki. My blog is called "Miss Diagnoses" because I have too many diagnoses and because my Lyme disease was misdiagnosed for many years.
In addition to being a professional patient, I'm a compulsive reader and doodler. Sadly, my writing and drawing are limited by repetitive strain injury and neuropathy. I use assistive technology, but I can't post as often as I'd like. You can also find me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and I have two short cartoon videos on YouTube.
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24 thoughts on “If Santa Claus Had Brain Fog”

Great post!
We better take better care of things if we want Santa to be able to keep doing his rounds!
My worst brain fog triggers are exposures to pollution, pesticides, toxic fragrance chemicals in everyday laundry, personal care, and cleaning products, off-gassing from plastics and technology, some molds, wireless radiation, even a few foods… I am so grateful to have had a few moments without severe brain fog this past year… Would love to have more!
Hope your fogs and symptoms clear and that you can enjoy some fun times over the holy daze ❤

This is BRILLIANT! Santa may also be gluten-intolerant, have a sleep disorder, adrenal fatigue or poor mitochondrial function. Poor, poor Santa. No cookies or pasteurized milk for him this year – only kale chips and wheat grass shots…

How about low Vitamin D? Isn’t the north pole in the middle of like 6 months of darkness right now? Where I live we haven’t seen the sun in so long I’m beginning to wonder if it’s still up there. Everyone I know is dealing with seasonal depression. MerryFrickenChristmas, right? Now where did I put that light box?

Very very funny 😛 You could go on and on with Santa Claus. How about giving him a bunch of medications to alleviate each symptom, without ever looking for the underlying cause. You could have a field day with this.

Just found your blog and you made my day (that is if I could remember which day it is)! I waste a lot of energy repeating what it was I just did because I could remember if I did it or not, argh! You rock!

ABOUT ME

Hi! I'm Vicki. My blog is called "Miss Diagnoses" because I have too many diagnoses and because my Lyme disease was misdiagnosed for many years.
In addition to being a professional patient and spoonie, I'm a compulsive reader and doodler. Sadly, my writing and drawing are limited by repetitive-strain injury and hand neuropathy; I use assistive technology, but I can't post as often as I'd like. You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and I have two short cartoon videos on YouTube.
Twitter and Instagram: @miss_diagnoses
Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube: @MissDiagnoses